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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting di...more

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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of...more

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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve ...more

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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consume...more

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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry;...more

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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the I...more

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The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

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I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.” And so I said...more

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Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the par...more

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the...more